Open Mike

[SJ]

I'd have to look it up again, but it was basically Mike setting the scene. '2007, Geelong down at KP, a game you were expected to win....you didn't, and you got a bake from the coach...etc'

2008?

Perhaps he meant late in 2006, when it resulted in a draw and cost Melbourne a top four spot. I can't think of any other match that would fit the bill. They won by a point in 2005. Another one may be late 2004 when Melbourne was decent (as was Geelong) and the Cats won, but that's four years earlier.

 

[d33my]

2008?

Perhaps he meant late in 2006, when it resulted in a draw and cost Melbourne a top four spot. I can't think of any other match that would fit the bill. They won by a point in 2005. Another one may be late 2004 when Melbourne was decent (as was Geelong) and the Cats won, but that's four years earlier.

Oh yeah, 2008 was what I meant.

Yeah not really sure what Mike was on about. I'm fairly sure he was referring to Bailey and Neitz rather than Daniher and Neitz, because it came with discussion about the new direction of the club etc. So yeah, 2008 definitely doesn't fit the bill.

 

[SJ]

Oh yeah, 2008 was what I meant.

Yeah not really sure what Mike was on about. I'm fairly sure he was referring to Bailey and Neitz rather than Daniher and Neitz, because it came with discussion about the new direction of the club etc. So yeah, 2008 definitely doesn't fit the bill.

There was no game at Kardinia in 2007 anyway.

 

[Father Jack]

Yeah, I couldn't work that out either as it didn't sound like he'd simply mucked his dates up as Bailey was involved, meaning that it was the era Melbourne had no chance whatsoever of beating Geelong anywhere, let alone Kardinia Park.

 

[FRUMPY]

maybe the NAB cup game vs dees at KP in 2008???

 

[SJ]

maybe the NAB cup game vs dees at KP in 2008???

Surely Melbourne would not have been expected to win that game though. And a Round 1 NAB Cup game is not worth discussion on Open Mike.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080725...wsArticle/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=55257

Melbourne went into the match without skipper David Neitz, Cameron Bruce, Aaron Davey, Jared Rivers, Brock McLean, Brad Miller, Brent Moloney, Nathan Carroll, Matthew Whelan, Paul Wheatley, James Frawley, Clint Bartram and Ricky Petterd.

 

[Rod Stroker]

2008?

Perhaps he meant late in 2006, when it resulted in a draw and cost Melbourne a top four spot. I can't think of any other match that would fit the bill. They won by a point in 2005. Another one may be late 2004 when Melbourne was decent (as was Geelong) and the Cats won, but that's four years earlier.

Was definitely 2008 because he referenced Bailey as coach and he wasn't there before 2008.

19mins 30secs in

 

[SJ]

That's bizarre. He clearly is referring to that game, yet almost no team in history has been bigger outsiders than Melbourne that day. They actually played pretty well too.

 

[d33my]

What was the final margin? How did we play on the day? Maybe he meant we thought we should have snatched a victory??

 

[SJ]

What was the final margin? How did we play on the day? Maybe he meant we thought we should have snatched a victory??

Well I vividly remember the Cats were pretty poor early on.

Melbourne kicked the first three: http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2008/091120080406.html

Thompson later blamed the pre-match ceremony as a distraction.

But let's face it, had Melbourne won it would have been one of the biggest upsets in VFL/AFL history.

 

[d33my]

I guess we did pretty well, considering what would happen there a few years later...

 

[SJ]

I guess we did pretty well, considering what would happen there a few years later...

And what happened 16 rounds later.

 

[ashley12]

And what happened 16 rounds later.

That game was the first Friday Night game ever live in Perth/WA that I can ever remember (because of the Olympic Opening Ceremony on later that night) and we got given that crap.

What a joke.

 

[giggler99]

David Neitz, that bump he made on that Hawthorn player back in 2002,
Such nostalgic sadly they are rarities these days.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Didnt neitz play chb quite a bit back in the day

Picked in the '95 AA side on the bench based on his efforts in defence from memory.

 

[Hammer#8]

Gary Pert is on tonight.

 

[Runk]

Gary, do you recall that time hen you got knocked out and got up to run only to face plant into turf two to three times?

No.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

That's bizarre. He clearly is referring to that game, yet almost no team in history has been bigger outsiders than Melbourne that day. They actually played pretty well too.

Yeah, he's got that flat-out wrong. I clearly remember it being one of those games that happens from time to time where a footy journalist will do the old 'How many players from Team A would even get a game in Team B?' And the consensus with Melbourne v Geelong in the lead-up to that game in 2008 was maybe two or three.

 

[tugga]

Thought last night's interview with Pert was poor.
would have liked Mike to go more into detail about his playing career, particularly with Fitzroy. The bloke was a star and it would have been interesting to hear what Fitzroy was like as a club etc.
One of Mike's more disappointing efforts.

 

[Father Jack]

Gary Pert asserts that giving Mick a two year deal whereby he's sacked at the end of it won Collingwood a flag. I can't help but wonder if it didn't cost them one.

But yes, one of the more boring Open Mikes.

 

[Borussia Teeth]

Thought last night's interview with Pert was poor.
would have liked Mike to go more into detail about his playing career, particularly with Fitzroy. The bloke was a star and it would have been interesting to hear what Fitzroy was like as a club etc.
One of Mike's more disappointing efforts.

Agree with most of this. Felt more like an interview with CEO Gary Pert, rather than ex-footballer Gary Pert.

Not Pert's fault, he answered the questions put to him very well. Just felt Sheahan missed a trick in "knowing Pert for 30 years" that he focused so much on off-field matters and we didn't get more of an insight into Pert the footballer.

 

[Beerfish]

I think Mike thinks he's more like a Parkinson whereas he seems in reality closer to a Sam Lane when it comes to interviewing.

 

[vaughany]

Have to be honest it seems Mike is struggling to get the big names on the show now and it seems anyone- actually anyone who wants a dollar can have their own half hour.

Soon the boot studder from North Melbourne in the 1980's will feature next

 

[CJApples87]

The CEO of the biggest club in the country isn't big enough?

 

[Hammer#8]

Pert was meh'.

Kind of interesting to hear about his Fitzroy days, but then talking about Collingwood, he started sounding like he was at a business lunch with the club's stakeholders.

And his most noteworthy on-field achievement was being involved with Ablett's 94' mark?